page_title: Bronze Age in Romania
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: Bronze Age in Romania / Features
caption_attribution_description: Aiud History Museum 2011
context_page_description: The Bronze Age is a period in the Prehistoric Romanian timeline and is sub-divided into Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, and Late Bronze Age.
context_section_description: During the Bronze Age, there were some important developments from Chalcolithic, with significant improvements in the economy.
  The local bronze-aged economy was based on rearing livestock (sheep, goats and pigs). The Wietenberg culture reared large cattle and horses for both transportation and food.  At this time, the artistic output also significantly increased, for example the Gârla Mare culture who created intricate clay statuettes.
  In the Early Bronze Age (c. 3500–2200 BCE), we see the archaeological evidence of various cultures developing, including the Baden-Coţofeni culture, the Cernavodă III-Belleraz culture, the Glina culture and the Verbicioara culture.  Common occupations were agriculture, mining, and animal husbandry. Houses were rectangular and medium-sized. The last period of the Early Bronze Age produced a broad range of ornaments (loop rings, bracelets, necklaces, pendants comprising copper, gold, and silver and particularly bronze).
  Verbicioara culture was identified in 1949 by the eponymous resort excavations.   Regarding burial customs, it was considered the beginning of the burial of the dead.
  In the Middle Bronze Age (c.2200–1600/1500 BCE), the population of Romania and neighboring countries was demarcated by the appearance of several major cultures. Some that stand out include the Otomani culture (seen also in Slovakia), Wietenberg culture (seen in Transylvania), Mureş culture, and Gârla Mare culture (from which impressive clay figurines and statuettes have been found).
caption: Coţofeni culture pottery at the Aiud History Museum, AiudThe Neolithic society is characterized by a predominantly agrarian economy with stable settlements and funerary practices specific to a religion based on a fertility cult. This type of society is near the peer polity described by Colin Renfrew.[1] One of the most important Neolithic archaeological cultures in the Romanian territory is the Cucuteni culture, one of the oldest in Europe (see Old Europe). This culture is probably the last that created painted pottery in Europe.[citation needed]
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